On 2018-03-27, Siard <shiems...@kpnplanet.nl> wrote: > solitone wrote: >> # systemctl poweroff >> >> However, with the latter the system does shut down, although the >> machine does not power off (I have to physically press the off >> button). > > Here, 'systemctl poweroff', as user or as root, does power off the > machine, both in stable and testing. So the question is why it does not > work in your case. >
That is the question. Yet I'm uncertain whether that question is amenable to an answer. I suffer from the same syndrome, no matter the method (shutdown -h now and poweroff as root, systemctl poweroff as user and root). The last few attempts with "systemctl poweroff" as root have powered the machine off (one time as a regular ".homie" user that command produced a "permission denied" message concerning, if memory serves--and it's serving less and less as time goes by--journalctl). It's periodic (well, periodic implies regularity and I've discovered none). In all cases the shutdown is performed correctly, cleanly, but sometimes the machine does not power off. This is a chronic disease for which the only cure might be a bios update (as I was informed by a kernel hacker here). -- We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it, is it not. --Samuel Beckett
